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" Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation ... - Page 40
by Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856
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Bell's Edition, 75–76. köide

John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis...offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And the otnooth stream in smoother numbers flows;...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 2. köide

George Campbell - 1801 - 404 lehte
...same piece, in the subsequent lines, and with tolerable success, at least in the concluding couplet: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar f. An attempt of the same kind of conformity of the sound to the sense, is perhaps but too discernible...
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Select British Classics, 6. köide

1803 - 290 lehte
...growth of happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 lehte
...easiest who have learn 'd to dance. 'Tis not enough, no harshness gives offence , The sound must aeem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when Zephyr...sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrentroar: ^/Vhen Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line too labours , and the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., 2. köide

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 lehte
...Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis...offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 365 Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ;...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 lehte
...Spectator was worked off, he would stop the press, to insert a new preposition or conjunction. 28. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the...loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Terse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw. The line too...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, 5. köide

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 lehte
...happier climates, into a soil less adapted to its nature, aud less favourable to its increase. • Soft is the strain, when Zephyr gently blows, And...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. • When Ajax...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, 2. köide

1806 - 346 lehte
...growth of happier climates, into a soil'less adapted to its nature, and less favourable to its increase. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the...smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the soundsng shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives...
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Poétique anglaise, 1. köide

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 lehte
...anglaise; il prouvera ensuite quelle énorme différence existe entre un bon et un mauvais traducteur ; Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows ; And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;* *Le vers est doux quand zéphire souffle doucement ; et le doux ruisseau coule en vers plus doux (i)...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köide

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 lehte
...Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join . True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tis...seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when aephyr gently hlows, And the smooth stream in smoother numhers flows; But when lond surges lash the...
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